Word: brutes
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...unquestionably graphic enough. Regan MacNeil, the twelve-year-old daughter of a movie actress, begins to act peculiar. She urinates on the living room rug in front of company. She uses a crucifix as a dildo. She grows incredibly strong and becomes the prime suspect in the brute-force slaying of a lovable drunken movie director. Her schoolwork suffers...
...woman, too, she feels herself a Jew. "Every woman adores a Fascist, the boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you." When her square boyfriend, Buddy Willard, takes down his pants for her benefit she says, "The only thing I could think of was turkey gizzards and I felt depressed." Hating her virginity she gets a man to give her the rack and the screw and hemorrhages violently. Her suicides are novel...
...career of James Earl Jones, the evening is a sad disappointment. The brute force and self-assured cockiness that he brought to The Great White Hope are of no use in Othello. Another of Jones' traits, his warm, winning deep-down, irrepressible mirth, is similarly irrelevant, and actually damages some lines and scenes. His aspiration may be applauded, but his performance must be deplored. T.E.K
...only the day before yesterday that Lancaster's ivory grin and simian grace made him a star? No, it was 1947, the year of Burt Force with Brute Lancaster. Or was it Brute Force with Burt Lancaster? Hood and hero, buccaneer and intellectual, Lancaster played them all, sometimes simultaneously. His characterizations were usually as delicate as his incisors, but in such films as Birdman of Alcatraz and Elmer Gantry he was restrained and acute...
Once and for all, declared the press releases, the $288,900 Questor Grand Prix would decide the burning question: "Can brute American power beat effete European technology?" Can, in other words, the growling Formula A racing cars that are prepared in the U.S. hold their own against the sleek little Formula One machines from the international Grand Prix circuit...